CYP Now - Pledge to retain visibility of early intervention spending is 'tiny concession'

The government's decision to compel local authorities to reveal their early intervention expenditure by publishing a funding profile has been attacked as a "meaningless exercise".

The move intends to help identify local spending on such programmes as the early intervention grant is absorbed into wider local government funding from April.

But Graham Allen MP, chair of the Early Intervention Foundation, said the decision was a “tiny concession” for changes to the grant, which have widely been viewed as an abandonment of the government's commitment to early intervention.

“The very small concession is the fact that it can be tracked, and we’ll try and figure out where the money is being spent,” said Allen.

But he warned: “Local authorities are under pressure to use the money for mandatory programmes, and now early intervention will be at the back of the queue.

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